Associate Professor Charles Anderson
Details
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Department: School of AUD
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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charles.anderson@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0003-3988-511X
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Charles Anderson is Associate Professor Landscape Architecture and the Higher Degree by Research Delegated Authority for the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
Anderson is a landscape architect and artist with over thirty years' experience making and exhibiting work in Australia and around the world. He has a distinguished reputation as an artist and designer, and has received numerous awards for his work, from both within and outside of the landscape architectural profession.
Charles’ research foregrounds the fertile character of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and process-based modes of practice. Advocating new methods of approach and of attentiveness, and exploring new generative procedures, he argues that process thinking is not simply an operational stance, but an ethical position. Taking seriously the relationship between process thinking and place-making, Charles’ research advocates a mode of place-making which, rather than reproduce planned environments as systems of control, configures place as a discursive contested meshwork of movement, encounter, and exchange.
Industry Experience:
Anderson is founding director of CAStudios and Stutterheim / Anderson Landscape Architecture (SAALA), both award-winning design practices based in Melbourne, and is a registered member of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
Supervisor projects
- CARTOGRAPHING SEMI-CONDUCTOR CHIP'S FLOWS & THE RESOURCE 'SAND & WATER'
- 19 Jun 2025
- Chance and Randomness; Post-Digital Practices Between the Canvas and the Block
- 16 Jan 2025
- Exploring Aquatic Architecture in the Mekong Delta as a Climate Adaptation Solution for Flood-prone Communities
- 30 Aug 2024
- Architectural Agonism
- 22 Aug 2024
- Architecture design optimisation through generative structural optimisation techniques
- 6 Sep 2023
- Parkour vision: Making the city playable
- 29 Mar 2023
- Where Function Follows Form: Combining Methodologies for Generalist Plasticity in a Vacuum of Specialists
- 25 Nov 2022
- Airspace: pioneering, new materialities and the future of practice
- 15 Feb 2022
- Fostering discourse: Food as a tool for curating landscape
- 30 Nov 2021
- Building community; setting in motion relationships of care with building processes
- 23 Nov 2021
- Sensing Climate for Novel Environmental Experiments
- 30 Sep 2021
- Restoring Singapore's Food Collective Actualisation Through Regenerative Agrarian Dynamics
- 13 Jul 2021
- The Layered Image: Staging Silent Interior Atmospheres in Light and Darkness
- 15 Feb 2021
- Investigations Beyond the Surface: Surveying the Depth of Territorial Data
- 24 Nov 2020
- Negotiating Distance: Making Place Through and in a Practice of Landscape Architecture
- 21 Nov 2020
- Groundbreaking: Fieldnotes from Forty Walks Across Stockholm’s Landscapes of Extraction
- 3 Aug 2020
- The architecture of Nation-State borders: Exhibiting the Korean Demilitarize Zone as a Proving Ground
- 22 Jul 2020
- Impact of private advertising on collective and individual experience in public space.
- 11 Jun 2020
- The Attentive Maker: foregrounding the interrelationality of thing, material, environment and maker
- 28 Mar 2019
- Evolving Legacy An Exploratory Path into Uncovering and Sustaining a Practice's Accumulated Knowledge
- 6 Feb 2019
- Stones that Speak: Exploring Public Engagement with Chinese Memorials
- 1 Oct 2018
- Humans in the Loop: Incorporating Human Behaviour in Building Performance Simulation
- 29 Mar 2017
- Negotiating the design of emerging urban futures: Co-creating mixed modes of living and working with developer-clients
- 13 May 2016
- Not just a Toothbrush Meaning Making in Informal Commemorative Practices
- 29 Feb 2016
- Speaking Dancer In-Residence. Speaking Dancing Residing-In
- 2 Mar 2015
- Building Simplexity: the 'More or Less' of Post-Digital Architecture Practice
- 11 Aug 2014
Teaching interests
Landscape architecture, urban design, place-making, process, material thinking, generative procedures, open systems, time, movement, change, dissipative structures, complexity, collaboration, interdisciplinarity, poetics.
Research interests
Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Visual Arts and Crafts, Design Practice Research, Urban and Regional Planning, Performing Arts and Creative Writing, Distributed cognition.
